What makes life worthwhile?
An interview with Victoria writer Pauline Holdstock about What Endures, short fiction and humour.
Dossier 01 · Canadiana
A Foot in Canada
Based in the Okanagan. Covering BC books, Canadian writers and public life.
Canada is Teitelbaum’s home and working base. From Penticton in British Columbia’s Okanagan, he serves as Senior Editor of BC BookWorld and writes about books, writers and speculative literature. His current BC work sits alongside reporting on Canadian cultural and public life, from Jewish Montreal to the Arctic.
His reporting earned a Canadian Northern Lights Award for Excellence in Independent Journalism (second prize, 1998) for “The Call of the Wired” in Wired.
Writing from British Columbia
Trump and Canadian civil society
An interview with UBC political scientist Max Cameron about citizenship and polarization.
Canadian journalism
Browse all 37 pieces — Cohen, Richler, Beauchemin & more
The Jerusalem Report
Bird on a Wire
Leonard Cohen on songwriting and faith.
Duddy Dearest
Mordecai Richler and his son’s view of the family.
Innocent Abroad
Richler’s This Year in Jerusalem.
Defanged
Jacob Two-Two, the Hooded Fang and Richler’s Montreal on television.
Richler Versus Quebec
Messianic Minstrel — Irving Layton
Beside da Point
A Montreal education and antisemitism on campus.
Jihad at ‘Gaza U.’
Reporting from Concordia University.
Quebec’s Nasty Girl
Historian Esther Delisle and Quebec’s wartime past.
The Reincarnation of Kim Campbell
Canada’s former prime minister and her collaboration in musical theatre.
Neo-Nazi Finds a Platform on L.A. Cable
Toronto-based Ernst Zundel’s broadcasts reach Los Angeles.
An Inuk in Israel
Ethnic Survival: The Arctic
Jewish life and cultural identity in Iqaluit.
China Man
Morris “Two-Gun” Cohen, from the Canadian prairies to China.
Stranger Than Non-Fiction
Edmonton-born, Ottawa-area writer Victor Ostrovsky and his books.
St. Urbain’s Mediaman
Robert Rabinovitch, Jewish Montreal and the CBC.
A Beautiful Twisted Mind
David Cronenberg on Spider and its Jewish subtext.
Outrageous Fortune
Arthur Hiller, from Edmonton and the CBC to Hollywood.
Five-Dollar Moviemaker
Independent filmmaker Ruba Nadda in Toronto.
Hersh Does Gersh
Montreal’s Hershey Felder brings George Gershwin to the stage.
The Los Angeles Times
Leonard Cohen, Pain Free
A portrait of the Montreal-born poet and songwriter.
Mordecai Richler Was Here
The novelist, his city and Solomon Gursky Was Here.
‘Whodunit’ Suggests Author’s Fame Is No Mystery
Yves Beauchemin — a profile of the Quebec novelist.
Continental Shifts: Canada
Melting Pot
Canadian views of Southern California.
Melting Pot
Canadian expatriates in Southern California.
Johnny Jellybean to ‘Consequences’
Ted Zeigler and the Montreal television show.
Out of Science Fiction, a New View of Contemporary Reality?
Vancouver writer William Gibson and cyberpunk.
Hadassah
Montreal Gazette
A Foot in Three Countries
A wry autobiographical point of entry: Montreal, Israel and California.
Star Tribune
Wired
The Call of the Wired
Internet connections in the Arctic; Northern Lights Award for Excellence in Independent Journalism.
The New York Times
Photo: Jill Connelly / The New York Times
College in Canada
Cinefantastique / CFQ
The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood and the film adaptation of her novel.
Alien³: Michael Biehn, William Gibson, and the Fate of Ripley
Includes Gibson’s work on the screenplay.